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	<title>Excel for decision making</title>
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		<title>Ratios in Accounting: Key Ratios from the Balance Sheet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you do Financial Modeling you have to have some understanding of Accounting.
Here are some ratios that you need to know. They are part of the &#8220;survival kit&#8221;
Working Capital:
The Working Capital is the difference between the Current Assets and the Current Liabilities.
So: Working Capital = Current Assets &#8211; Current Liabilities
The Current Liabilities are the debt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexlega.wordpress.com&blog=1367270&post=48&subd=alexlega&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk exposure with Bonds: the Duration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the hell is the “Duration”??
The Duration tells you how long, in years, it takes for the coupons to repay the price of a bond. It is the weighted average maturity of a bond’s cash flows or of any series of linked cash flows. The Macauley formula that gives a way to calculate the Duration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexlega.wordpress.com&blog=1367270&post=74&subd=alexlega&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Add some neurons to Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
A human brain is 1400cc in size and 100 000 times slower than a modern computer. Yet Gary Kasparov managed to beat Deep Blue quite a few times since their first encounter in 1996. Even though the Word Champion has been defeated more recently, a human being has still inflicted severe defeats to the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexlega.wordpress.com&blog=1367270&post=66&subd=alexlega&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Triming your data in Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexlega</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday I am a bit more happy with this blog. The WordPress team did a great job as it is reliable and it&#8217;s bundled with useful features. You&#8217;re going to ask me: what&#8217;s the link between WordPress and Excel?
Well: Thanks to WordPress I know what you are looking when you use the search engine in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexlega.wordpress.com&blog=1367270&post=61&subd=alexlega&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Key Performance Indicator using REPT()</title>
		<link>http://alexlega.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/key-performance-indicator-using-rept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
I recently wanted to display some information in a table using conditional formatting for ease of reading.
I eventually ended up using the function rept().
It looked just like that:


The rept()  function returns a repeated text value a specified number of times.
It is really useful in this case.
Download the following spreadsheet and follow the how-to!
Spreadsheet: KPI [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexlega.wordpress.com&blog=1367270&post=52&subd=alexlega&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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